Mazeika - Lake Town Effect

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lyrics

Pulled back into town
Half-past late
Somewhere on the spine of the
granite state

Ten years since I left
When I was better than
The tourist traps and everymen
That lived out on the pier

Who rode that spiral down
Through summers full of noise
Through empty winters that destroy
Survivors in the clear

But promises play tricks on us
And hope isn’t the fix for those
Memories I tried to lose
Paths I didn’t think to choose

I’m getting used to
the pattern of my paces
The water’s been still
Stone-still for ages

- Chorus -
People might stay
People might spend a lonely lovely summer
People might wait
People might make a mess of the lives they had
Many kinds of visitors
Are carried in
on an eastern wind
But nothing else changes
The same stories
The same ratted pages

Dad’s too sick to lobby clerk
And keep pace
Couldn’t find a soul that could
Take his place

So I’m at the desk
The spot I always feared
The reason that I disappeared
The moment I could run

Couldn’t die like this
Subject to every “please”
And keeping track of all those keys
When nothing’s ever done

But promises play tricks on us
And fear isn’t the fix for those
Memories I tried to lose
Paths I didn’t want to choose

I can fight fate or
I can learn to face it
Hold for the impact
Try to embrace it

- Repeat Chorus 2x -

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from Painting a Song: Season 2, Volume 12, released January 4, 2023
by Bobby Dallas

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